… at this dinner [for the 1950s Freeman], Rand contradicted Mises on some doctrinal point, causing the eminent professor to stop eating and mobilize his scorn and fury on her. Ayn Rand thereupon burst into tears and exclaimed, “You are treating me like an ignorant little Jewish girl!”

Mises jumped up from his chair with joy. “That is exactly what you are! An ignorant little Jewish girl!”

Rand was not one to be crossed lightly. But even she might have known better than to gainsay Ludwig von Mises.

I have never met anyone as emotionally and intellectually brittle as acolytes of Ayn Rand (Objectvists). They are completely incapable of entertaining disagreement with their ideas and anyone who does will quickly find the discussion has ended and they have gone. Any comments criticizing Rand herself are regarded as “disvaluing” her. Disvaluing, not devaluing. Disvaluing is ALL or NOTHING. Agree with her completely or not at all. Devaluing can mean accepting her ideas partially, but that was always UNACCEPTABLE to Rand and is to her acolytes today.